Reply to allegations on Kuching Money Cheater

Dear All,
It has been brought to my attention that Mr. Andrew T Y Lim has made several postings on
the Facebook Group called Kuching Money Cheater whereby he has alleged that he has
wasted all his money due to my mishandling of his cases with no professionalism and
incompetency and that I am a liar.
Case No. 1
In April, 2011, Mr. Andrew T Y Lim instructed me to file a debt recovery action for RM196k
against one of his trade debtors. The trade debtor was a private limited company. The suit
was commenced in the Sessions Court and a summary judgment application (SJ) was filed
in order to expedite the process of getting judgment. The SJ was dismissed by the Sessions
Court on 10.4.2012. An appeal to the High Court against the dismissal order of the Sessions
Court was successful and judgment was entered against the Defendant on 14.08.2012.
The defendant then lodged an appeal to the Court Of Appeal which was dismissed and the
decision of the High Court was affirmed by the Court Of Appeal. For benefit of non-lawyers,
this means that Mr. Andrew T Y Lim has won the case.
Thereafter, DAST has tried to execute the judgment against the judgment debtor but
unfortunately the judgment debtor has no assets. During the course of the legal
proceedings, the defendant made 2 attempts to negotiate to settle the claim amicably by
making proposals to pay a lesser sum in full settlement of the claim. The first offer that was
made at the Sessions Court stage amounted to 80% of the claim. The second offer that was
made at the Court Of Appeal stage amounted to 51% of the claim. On both occasions, Mr.
Andrew T Y Lim refused to accept the offers.
Case No. 2
Sometime in February 2013, my office filed another Writ against 5 defendants on behalf of
Mr. Andrew T Y Lim for overdue sub-contract payments. Judgment In Default of Appearance
was entered against all the Defendants in March 2013. Since then, we have taken up
execution proceedings against some of the Defendants but all our efforts were unsuccessful.
This is because the Defendants did not have any assets nor the means to pay.
I attach 2 screen shots of emails exchanged between Mr. Andrew T Y Lim and myself. I
used Microsoft Paint to black out the parts for the sake of privacy of other parties named in
the emails.
Screen Shot 1
My email to him on 3.12.2014

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Screen Shot 2
His reply on the same day

Conclusion
The postings and allegations by Mr. Andrew T Y Lim against me and my legal firm are totally
baseless and untrue because:2|Page

(a) there is no incompetency or unprofessionalism as judgments have been obtained in

both cases and the legal actions were carried out timeously;
(b) he was fully aware and had in fact expressly informed me that the Defendants in
both cases have no assets even before the actions were filed;
(c) Both cases were carried out on an IOU basis and I did not insist on any retainer
fees before accepting his briefs. Payments made by Mr. Andrew T Y Lim for both
legal actions to date are barely enough to cover our out of pocket expenses;
(d) Since the emails dated 3.12.2014 shown above, my firm has not acted for Mr.
Andrew T Y Lim any further;
(e) His email dated 3.12.2014 to me shows that the reason he did not pay was due to his
financial constraints and not due to any mishandling or unprofessionalism on my part
or that our fees were unreasonable;
(f) I have never been involved in any money lending business with anyone; and
(g) I have never lied to Mr. Andrew T Y Lim.
Statement authored by
Allan Lao

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